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When an alcohol fuelled and angry mob more than one thousand strong descended on Cronulla beach 10 years ago, it marked one of the blackest days in Australia’s history.

If Nick Folkes successfully fights today’s police injunction in the NSW Supreme Court, the racism and hooliganism of the notorious Cronulla Riots could resurface at an “anniversary memorial” on Saturday.

The weather is forecasted to be mercifully cool in Cronulla this Saturday, when a group of right-wing extremists led by Folkes will descend on Don Lucas Reserve, pending this morning’s 11th hour court hearing.

Heat, emotion and booze created what NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione described as a near "perfect storm" on December 11, 2005, when thousands of "Aussies" – mainly young hooligans, but also a small but influential contingent of neo-fascists – descended on Cronulla beach.

What happened next sparked days of mob violence that shamed the nation.

For Folkes, the head of the "Party For Freedom", which rose from the ashes of the Australian Protectionist Party remembers the Cronulla Riots of 2005 were not a shameful explosion of Australian racism, it was a "day of rebellion".

"I agree that it got out of control, there was alcohol involved," Folkes told ninemsn.

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“(It) highlighted that tension between Muslims and Australians, it was just sort of building over the years and it just exploded.

"I just see it as a real rebellion, a reaction, and to me it was more of a protest than a riot. But people did get out of hand, there's no doubt. It was just a reaction; the tension was building for many years.”

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Sutherland Shire Mayor Carmelo Pesce has called for calm heads to prevail and to stop any potential violence before it has a chance to surface.

“The events of December 2005 were a few dark days that are now years in the past,” Mayor Carmelow Pesce wrote in an editorial for SBS.

“I speak on behalf of the people of the Shire when I say that we do not support or condone racism or violence in Sutherland Shire.”

Wide-spread criticism of plans to recognise the 10th year anniversary have slowed down the Party For Freedom, but Folkes is adamant the group will not be stopped.

Having already been told that the group was not welcome on the beach itself, Folkes has nixed a plan to bury a coffin symbolising "the death of multiculturalism in Australia".